Happy Hills?

Dystopia Suburbia | Gay Domestic | The Subdivision |

Digital Photocollage | 2026

From the 1930s to the 1960s, federal housing officials insured home mortgages only in white neighborhoods, and pushed banks to lend only to white married men with white children.

From the beginning, suburbia was its own type of dystopia, engineered as a white heteronormative paradise, a manufactured Eden, double plastic wrapped, excluding anyone who did not align with that precise paradigm.

— Behan